Zazie Beetz

Beetz – FX’s “Baskets” TV Series Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – Pacific Design Center – West Hollywood, CA, USA, 2016 – Photo Credit: Guillermo Proano / PR Photos

Birth Name: Zazie Olivia Beetz

Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany

Date of Birth: 25 May, 1991

Ethnicity:
*father – German
*mother – African-American

Zazie Beetz is a German-American actress. She is known for her roles on television’s Atlanta and Easy, and in the films Deadpool 2, Joker, Geostorm, Nine Days, and The Harder They Fall.

Zazie was born in Berlin. Her father, Thomas, is a German, cabinet maker, and is white. Her mother, Michelle, is American, and is an African-American, social worker from New York. Zazie was raised in Berlin until the age of eight, before moving to Manhattan, New York City, U.S. She is able to speak German as well as English.

Zazie is married to actor and screenwriter David Rysdahl. The two started production company Sleepy Poppy.

Beetz with husband David Rysdahl on the red carpet for the screening of ‘Seberg’ during the 76th Venice Film Festival at the 30 on August Sala Grande, 2019 in Venice, Italy, Denis Makarenko/Bigstock.com